No. B229880. June 28, 2011. Appeal from the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, No. MC019168, Brian C. Yep, Judge, and Arnold H. Gold, Temporary Judge. pursuant to California Constitution, anicle VI, section 21. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer Feld, Rex S. Heinke, L. Rachel Helyar, Shawn Hanson and Maria Ellinikos for Petitioners. Greines, Martin, Stein Richland, Robin Meadow, Robert A. Olson, Cynthia E. Tobisman and Jeffrey E. Raskin for Los Angeles County Bar Association, Beverly Hills Bar Association
(a) Any party may obtain discovery within the scope delimited by Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 2017.010), and subject to the restrictions set forth in Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 2019.010), by propounding to any other party to the action written interrogatories to be answered under oath. (b) An interrogatory may relate to whether another party is making a certain contention, or to the facts, witnesses, and writings on which a contention is based. An interrogatory is not objectionable
(a) A party propounding interrogatories shall number each set of interrogatories consecutively. (b) In the first paragraph immediately below the title of the case, there shall appear the identity of the propounding party, the set number, and the identity of the responding party. (c) Each interrogatory in a set shall be separately set forth and identified by number or letter. (d) Each interrogatory shall be full and complete in and of itself. No preface or instruction shall be included with a set